Special Issue: Mónica Carriço, Bert de Muynck, Ned Rossiter (eds) 'Creative China: Counter-Mapping the Creative Industries', Urban China 33 (November, 2008).

Designed by Hendrik-Jan Grievink

This issue of Urban China sets out to critique and redefine the idea and practice of ‘mapping’ the creative industries. Foregrounding the experimental process of collaborative constitution, we are interested in the multiple idioms of expression that make creative industries intelligible beyond the blandness of policy discourse. Activist researchers, artists and writers in Europe, Brazil and India have been particularly inventive in combining collaborative techniques of production with social-political critique via media of communication. We see this work as part of the prehistory and global dialogue around how to create new spaces and transdisciplinary knowledges able to negotiate the complexities and politics that attend the economization of culture.

Screen shots of section introductions.

Chinese with select texts published in English

Full and downloadable issue here.

It may be possible to order copies from here, though the issue has sold rapidly and is in limited supply.